Hey, so I got this idea from a book and I was wondering if there's a way to make it possible if I root my phone. I want to have 2 separate user accounts but there is no option to switch accounts, the way you would access one is to type in its password (say 1234) and the way you access the other would be to type in its password (5678). So it doesn't look like there are multiple accounts, and if I need to give someone the password I can tell them 1234, but all my actual data is hidden unless I type 5678. Is that possible? I am willing to root my phone.
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I work for an IT firm, and often when we go onsite we end up having to retrieve user passwords for various reasons. Right now our options are to:
A) Print out the site's password sheet and take it with us
B) RDP back to our company network and lookup each password as needed
The first solution is rife with security concerns, while the second is a pain in the butt.
What I would like to do is set up a background wifi sync at the office with my android tablet, so every time I leave the building I automagically have up-to-date files with me. But also store them in an encrypted folder or format, so if the tablet gets lost we don't have to reset many hundreds of client passwords. I am not at all opposed to buying an app, or more than one if this can be accomplished in a convenient and secure way. Any ideas?
Dropbox? Preferably combined with storing the passwords in an encrytped database such as keepass?
Really, you want confirmed sign off from your management here. ****ing up with a customer password database (say you lost your phone) is a Career Limiting Move.
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Hey fellow XDAers!
Quick question today: Is it possible to set up Exchange accounts on an Android phone (or in my case 100+ phones), but let the end user be prompted to enter the Username and Password when they start using the phone?
One solution might be to at least enter the Username up front, together with a bogus Password. This should give a wrong password message or similar and then prompt for the correct one, but is hardly an elegant solution. Also, it requires us to enter the correct user name in the correct phone, which generates significantly more work distributing the right phone to the right person.
Is there any better solutions out there from you brilliant XDA people?
Cheers
Anyone?
Can anyone recommend an email client that requires you to put in your email account password each time you connect?
I want to use it specifically for my banking and nothing else/no other email accounts.
I don't really want the app to save my password, because I don't routinely password-protect my phone (too much hassle for too little benefit), and I want to know that my bank details/emails are safe if I ever lost my phone.
I don't know the answer to your question off the top of my head, but there are apps which will password-protect other apps (there are many, app lock, app protector, etc.).
Yeah, I did think of that, but since I'm paranoid and my phone is rooted/not password protected, I figure that anyone with a clue could get past that if they got hold of my phone. So I really want to not store the email password on the phone at all. I guess if I can't find an app then I'll just have to use the browser...
If you're paranoid, why do you stay rooted and not password protected? You could set a pattern lock, or at least unroot.
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If you're paranoid, why do you stay rooted and not password protected? You could set a pattern lock, or at least unroot.
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Convenience. I have several apps that require root permissions, and I flash a new ROM quite regularly.
As for the pattern/password protection on my device - I don't want to do that because it will involve several hundred inputs a week, whereas I only really intend on checking this specific email account a couple of times a week at most, so I'd really rather have to input the email password at that point.
There's nothing else sensitive on my phone that I would care about anyone getting their hands on.
Bump. Any ideas, anyone?
I realize that this has been an 'issue' for a while now, but I would like to know if there are any new ways secure and use stock email client with Exchange ActiveSync and not have credentials stored in clear text on the device. The same goes for IMAP and POP accounts using the app.
Yes, this is really only an issue on rooted devices, Google's official answer is to enable Device Encryption and that there are other email clients out there that handle credentials better. I personally switched to Touchdown, but would rather use the stock client.
I am trying to come up with a MDM solution for my company and really don't want to have to block devices if I don't have to. But as it stands my only options are have the user buy a 3rd party email client, force encryption and/or block rooted / jailbroken devices or use Citrix and OWA. I've spent a couple days researching this and haven't come up with anything promising that puts a smile on my face.
Any other Exchange Admins out there? How have you dealt with this?
For those who were not aware of your network username, password and domain being stored in clear text. Using Sql Lite open the Email app, Open EmailProvider.db and select HostAuth. Within you will find your connection info staring back at you, clear as day.
Android Issue Log:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809
Google's Response:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c128
I personally have a Motorola Moto G2 (Upgrading in a few days). Since I have a few things which are really personal and secretive I have two users on my phone. One with my all private stuff which I use most of the time and the other for use when I am with family or they ask to go on my phone. I thought about this instead of sliding down the notification bar and changing the user from there. We should be able to just log in directly into the user for example I have a pin and say the pin for my private account is 9999 and my pin for the other account is 1111 when I want to unlock the phone I want to be able to just go to a lock screen where I can access both by just typing either pin in. Thoughts?